Essay On Marijuana Vs Cigarettes

Marijuana can have very damaging affects on a person?s brain. It can impair a person?s short-term memory, decision-making and signal detection (Cannabinoids). ?In one study conducted in Memphis, TN, researchers found that, of 150 reckless drivers who were tested for drugs at the arrest scene, 33 percent tested positive for marijuana? (Marijuana). After having used marijuana a

     Marijuana is used for other things than getting someone stoned. Many advocates say “Marijuana is used for hemp making for fabrics and necklaces.”(William J.) Many advocates say, “If marijuana is so bad then why do doctors prescribe it to patients to help cure cancer, AIDS, headaches, migraines, glaucoma, and many other diseases.”(Sandra) Marijuana is used to calm people down and relieve stress.

People might think smoking marijuana is cool. They might try it without knowing what it is or what affects is has on you. Once someone smokes it for the first time, they might keep doing it again and again and they could get hooked on it for life. People who use marijuana usually never use any other type of illegal drugs, but more than seven thousand five hundred people get arrested for using marijuana every year. There is a wide variety of marijuana, but they are all based off of two marijuana plants, Indica and Sativa. Marijuana is very popular in America, and all over the world. Marijuana affects the body, it can be used as medicine, and marijuana can be addictive.

Marijuana creates many short-term and long-term effects on the body and brain. Some short-term effects include: impaired memory, altered senses, changes in mood, and difficulty with problem solving. Some long-term effects include: breathing problems, reduce memory, and decrease IQ. A study from New Zealand conducted in part by researchers at Duke University showed that people who started smoking marijuana heavily in their teens and had an ongoing marijuana use disorder lost an average of 8 IQ points between ages 13 and 38. The lost mental abilities didn't fully return in those who quit marijuana as adults (National). This study can be seen as reliable evidence because it was conducted by researched from Duke University, which is a private research

Marijuana is not a drug that you can get addicted too. There are more dangerous drugs then marijuana all around the world that can be addicting but with no help to your body. For example alcohol and cigarettes are more deadly and addictive than marijuana. Why shouldn’t they be illegal just like marijuana is? , Cigarettes prevent cancer and one can get addicted and invest a lot of money in it, when marijuana prevents from cancer growth and doctors can give you the medication for your pains. In the article, Roll your own, “IT MAY no look dangerous, but the tobacco plant has probably killed more people than his sword, he bow and arrow, and the spear put together” (unknown). Marijuana don’t have any death of human beans but tobacco has a lot from hoe bad tobacco is for you. Most people that die from drug use are normally, from tobacco use, heroine, and cocaine use. You don’t

Smoking tobacco is more harmful to your lungs than smoking marijuana. It only takes a couple inhalations of marijuana smoke to become high. Let’s say you’re addicted to cigarettes and smoke a pack a day, keeping in mind that cigarettes are legal. To get high off of marijuana it would only take about a fourth of the tobacco you inhale in just one cigarette, just to become high. When you smoke cigarettes you are continuously inhaling tar, nicotine, and many other chemicals that harm your lungs and may result in lung cancer.

Marijuana is also called weed, herb, pot, grass, bud, ganja, Mary Jane, and a lot of other terms in today’s world. It is a greenish- grey mixture of the dried shredded leaves and flowers of Cannabis sativa, which is the hemp plant. Some users smoke marijuana in hand- rolled cigarettes called joints, many use pipes, bongs, or marijuana cigars called blunts. (H. (2016, August). What is marijuana? Retrieved November 07, 2016). Marijuana is not only used for personal use but is sold legally and is consumed for medical purposes by people who have permission to do so. Marijuana is a controversial topic in today’s world because to legalize it in every state has brought up issues. Some states have done so and some still have yet to.

Marijuana is a mixture of the dried parts of the cannabis sativa hemp plant. Excessive marijuana use can lead to an addiction. The main chemical in marijuana is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which moves quickly through the bloodstream and to the brain, causing mild hallucinogenic effects. THC binds with cannabdnob receptors and activates neurons, which causes adverse effects on the mind and body. THC can mimic or block actions of neurotransmitters and interfere with normal functions. Marijuana use can lead to disturbed thoughts and can worsen psychotic symptoms. The short-term effects of marijuana include impaired coordination; skewed sensory and time perception; difficulty with thinking; shortened attention span and distractibility; impaired learning and memory. Long term users of marijuana often experience lowered motivation and some can experience anxiety, panic attacks, respiratory illness, and increased heart rate and risk of heart attack.

Alcohol is also a popular drug among young people especially college students. Alcohol is the reason why have a high number of college dropouts. Tobacco is responsible for many deaths ever year from cancers, lung, heart and other vascular diseases, Tobacco is proved to be addictive and many people agree that it is one of the hardest drugs for addicts to quit using. Why would the United States government let such a bad drug on the market and refuse to use marijuana for medical purposes? Because the tobacco lobby group is a powerful, well-financed and aggressive group that has successfully fought efforts to regulate, tax or otherwise control it. Also tobacco companies continually floods the media and public with misinformation suggesting that tobacco smoking is really good for you because it relaxes the body, or there is no connection between cigarette smoking and addiction, which are lies. Many lawsuits came in state and federal courts against the tobacco companies for not reveling the truth about nicotine and other dangerous additive that are found in cigarettes and many have been awarded a large amount of money. This proves that cigarettes are very dangerous and need to ban from selling it in the supermarkets. Drugs and alcohol are in fact dangerous and should not be compared with marijuana.

Many people think smoking marijuana is just as harmful as smoking tobacco, but this is not true. Those who hold that marijuana is equivalent to tobacco are misinformed. Due to the efforts of various federal agencies to discourage the use of marijuana in the 1970's the government conducted several biased studies designed to return results that would equate marijuana smoking with tobacco smoking, or

I constantly hear that weed does not harm you, this is false. “Marijuana contains more than four hundred known chemicals, including the same cancer-causing substances found in tobacco smoke”. (Alcohol vs. Marijuana, 2013). Let that sink in for a second, it has four hundred known chemicals in it that does not sound healthy for you. I also found out that “ It has been found that consuming one joint gives as much exposure to cancer-producing chemicals as smoking five cigarettes”. (What is Marijuana, 2013). One joint is the equivalent as smoking five cigarettes, but weed is harmless, I think not. Marijuana also affects your mind to where you cannot remember things. Marijuana smokers do not have the same ability to remember and organize information compared to people who do not smoke.

Cigarettes are a mixture of the most dangerous substances for humans to consume and yet they are legal and mass produced so that everyone can smoke them. Marijuana on the other hand is nowhere nearly as harmful as cigarettes but is illegal and looked at as if it were far worse than cigarettes. It is long overdue that society recognizes the fact that marijuana is better for people than cigarettes by a mile. Cigarettes are extremely more addictive than marijuana, the usage patterns for marijuana cannot compare to cigarettes, and dozens of lethal chemicals are put into cigarettes whereas marijuana is a natural plant and doesn’t contain nearly as many chemicals.

First of all what is marijuana. “Marijuana is the dried flowering tops of the cannabis sativa. Classified as a hallucinogenic drug, it is illegal in many countries and the international traffic of marijuana is restricted. Nonetheless, the smoking of marijuana in cigarettes and pipes is a popular recreation around the world” (“marijuana” 1). In the

Some of these have flavors which can hide the nicotine and other harmful chemicals. Something that may keep the person using these is peer pressure. People might want to fit in or get pressured into doing something. After someone gets pressured into doing marijuana they get there first use which leads to other harmful things. After their first use they will probably continue to use it, and if they keep using it they

Both marijuana and cigarettes should be made illegal because they both cause cancer, messes up lungs, and how a person ages. What is Marijuana? Marijuana an illegal drug that, it is dried and rolled into paper like a cigarette, it can even be smoke out of bottles, pipes, and is also smoked out of bongs (Mezinski). And marijuana can be healthy for you if it is eaten, eating it will affect you more or less depending on its percent, and the age of it’s THC (Mezinski). Marijuana has a lot of the same cancer cause chemicals that is tobacco, it holds over 400 different chemicals in it and because of the the chemical that gives you something called the “munchies”, the munchies makes you feel very hungry (Gross). Marijuana relaxes the air tubes